attainment of parents. We then decompose the overall trend into a parental background effect, a general expansion effect and a … tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents … and women with highly educated parents has narrowed. We then investigate the role of financial constraints in explaining …

. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. Two different societies with the same income …

Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations - parents … and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings … based on income data from two generations accurately predicts earnings persistence beyond two generations. We also do a …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …